{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5671", "Beyer Remarks On Inflation Reduction Act: We Are About To Pass The Biggest And Most Important Climate Bill In History", "2022-08-12", "2022", "2022-08", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Donald S. Beyer, Jr.", "B001292", "beyer.house.gov", "beyer", "https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Rep. Don Beyer, Chair of Congress\u2019 Joint Economic Committee and a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today spoke during debate on the House Floor on the Inflation Reduction Act.\n\nBeyer\u2019s prepared remarks follow below (remarks as delivered here):\n\nMadame Speaker, today we protect our world for future generations.\n\nThe Inflation Reduction Act will do so much good for the nation and the American people.\n\nAs my colleagues note, the bill will lower health care costs, reduce prescription drug prices, and create jobs.\n\nMuch like a proposal I introduced with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Angus King, it will reduce the deficit by preventing tax avoidance for the biggest corporations in this country, requiring them to shoulder their fair share of the tax burden.\n\nBut above all I am overjoyed that Congress is finally taking the kind of sweeping, ambitious action we desperately need to prevent the worst effects of the climate crisis.\n\nThis is the biggest problem my constituents sent me here to solve.\n\nWe are about to pass the biggest and most important climate bill in history.\n\nI\u2019m proud of provisions I wrote or co-wrote, including tax credits to\n\nspeed up the adoption of zero emission mid-size trucks, vans, and other commercial vehicles;\n\nscale up direct air capture technology to remove carbon pollution directly from the atmosphere;\n\npromote the development of green hydrogen;\n\nand incentivize the reduction of emissions in commercial buildings\n\nThese provisions and the bill as a whole will create huge numbers of good paying jobs.\n\nBut look at the big picture: this bill will put us on a path to meet our targets to reduce emissions, and help save this planet.\n\nThis is the kind of work the people\u2019s House exists to accomplish.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5671"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8498029783368111, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}